Speaker Vera Michalski-Hoffmann
Born in Basel, Switzerland, in a family with Swiss, Russian and Austrian roots, Vera spent her childhood in France, studied in Spain and has a degree in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. She married Jan Michalski, a Pole, and with him started a publishing …
Born in Basel, Switzerland, in a family with Swiss, Russian and Austrian roots, Vera spent her childhood in France, studied in Spain and has a degree in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. She married Jan Michalski, a Pole, and with him started a publishing company by the name of Les Editions Noir sur Blanc in 1987 active in Switzerland, France and Poland. When Jan passed away in 2002, she established the Jan Michalski Foundation for Literature and Writing in Montricher, Vaud. The Foundation is now very active boasting an international library, an auditorium and an exhibition space and supporting a vast array of literary activities worldwide.
She is also the publisher of the Libella group with a dozen of companies that have published in 2015 over 350 titles in France, Switzerland and Poland. The topics covered by the imprints of Libella range from Polish (Noir sur Blanc, Wydawnictwo Literackie), French and international literature (Buchet/Chastel, Phébus, Notabilia), literary non-fiction, ecology, history, music (Buchet/Chastel), travel writing (Noir sur Blanc), decoration and handicraft (Le Temps apprivoisé), illustrated books on different subjects, landscapes, gastronomy, bestselling practical guides, biographies of celebrities, essays (Favre), contemporary drawing (les Cahiers dessinés). Libella has a quality paperback imprint called Libretto and has entered recently the domain of top class photography (Delpire and Photosynthèses). The Polish bookstore in Paris established in 1833 also belongs to Libella.
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